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Great... more expensive games..

Who really cares? Whatever the settlement will be it wont mean jack for a compnay like activison.

We bring you more... because we pay our employees less!

This is just one ex-staffer who probably sucked at her job. If it were 5 ex-staffers, that would be very different.
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Unless it was one ex staffer suing on behalf of a number of staff members.

At any rate, should Activision be found guilty, it doesnt matter if its one or 100 employees who got screwed. In such a case, they broke the law and should be punished accordingly.

God Bless America !!

I would like to suffer severe mental anguish. where do i sign?

I hope Activision losses just like EA lost their two cases (America and Canada). Maybe if enough of these fool companies get sued for huge money they will stop abusing workers and pay them the loot they are worth. That of they will move all these video game jobs to India, Korea, China, and other such countries where you get paid crap money, get abusing hours, no OT pay, and don't complain or you would lose your job with no ability to sue the company that screwed you over.

They should run a investagation about this

This is just one ex-staffer who probably sucked at her job. If it were 5 ex-staffers, that would be very different.

Well Activison better have good lawyers.

Bottom line is these people that are complaining about not getting overtime went into the job knowing that they were going to be salaried employees, hence no overtime.

Anyone taking a job in this business not expecting to to work long, long hours is in for a very rude awakening.

You think if they signed a contract stating that at certain times during the development cycle that unpaid overtime would be necessary then anyone who signed this type of contract wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Not having worked in this kind of field I wouldn't know what the standard contract would include.

Paying workers for their time worked sounds fair and reasonable. Expecting people to work a 70+ hour week seems too much to me, but then to get into the industry people start out working for free anyway, you'd have thought companies like EA and Activision would have better employee policies rather than coming across as sweat shops with degree workers.

Who really cares. Activision hasn't made a game that I really care for anyways have never made a solid Star Trek game anyways I could care less if they lose millions or not, since I myself dont have that kind of money to take from people.

A shareholder and an employee declaring lawsuits against Activision in the same week? Looks like the disgruntled just declared a called shot to the nuts against Activision. While the first lawsuit sounds hard to prove, this one might have a bit more merit; it's well known that the industry has a problem with unpaid overtime. It will be interesting to see what happens..

I'm interested to see if this case has merit. I really don't know enough about this issue as it stands, but if developers are getting the shaft, it's certainly something that needs to be rectified. Given how much money games make now, it would be inexcusable for companies, especially big houses like activision to be shortsheeting their developers. That said, maybe they're not. Isn't it swell that civil suits are a matter of the public record?

That's not right! Just hope you don't get Jack Thompson in there..... video games made Activision not pay them for the amount they worked

well, coming from activision ... i expected better treatment ... can't wait to hear other companies ... especially microsoft!

evilmonkey998: I'm sure you would be pretty ticked off if you were not paid for the actual amount of work that you put in. It seems that working for Videogame developers/publishers is starting to lose its luster...

game developers everywhere are jumping up and down for this (the people that actually make the game, not the corporate buisness men who only care about stocks). Once activision gets nailed for millions more than what they should have paid in the first place, other companies will probably shape up to avoid a similair fate. The creative industry is plagued by unpaid overtime.

i guess i would be pissed if i didnt get paid well for overtime

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she's probably gonna lose

lawsuits are the newest fad.

I bet their CEO and Presidents never have a wrong paycheck nor do they bounce

These guyz need to treat people like people. All this talk of next gen games being expensive, is cuz ppl need 2 be given their time off from working. But these publishers tell us that & don give these guyz any time off, so they can make a big profit. This is not right

What the hell is wrong with 2K? From all I've heard, they're just fine.

This is the second law suit filed against Activision this week! Activision is in some deep trouble.

No 2k pays their employees overtime.

Activision: the next 2K.
Hope they win, but they probably won't.

This is a practice that's restricted to game companies. Lots of companies try to skirt the law when it comes to labor practices.

If you arn't interested in Industry news don't read this section you tool.

Glad to see Activision getting their asses in court. Overtime laws are very clear and it's ridiculouse that companies just ignore it.

idk seems pretty legit to report on the game industry. it lets us know how their employees are treated obiviously.

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I bet a few hundred lawyers are jumping up and down for this

Lawsuits,...yay!

Who cares about this except people that work ther

Hmm, litigation...how exciting....*yawn*